Klarinet Archive - Posting 001034.txt from 1997/11

From: Josh-Boy <joshcole@-----.Edu>
Subj: Re: GOOD STATIONS DISAPPEARING!
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:37:50 -0500

Classical Radio Stations? I'm moving to Toronto... Anyone wanna join me?

Josh Coleman

> "Good "stations disappearing
>
> We are fortunate in Toronto. Firstly, there is a government regulating
> body and it's function, among others, is to promote culture.
> So we get a good dose of good music. There are some private stations
> that also that deem it necessary to provide good fare.
> One of the stations has some commericals but it's not too bad. At least
> between those commercials there is a plethora of good music.
> Sometimes repetitious because they don't always have a new supply of
> records.
> They never ask for donations. There is another station, connected with
> a learning institute that provides a lot of music. Many hours of good
> music. A few times a year they ask for donations.
> But all this is Toronto.
>
> When I take a trip to my hometown, Edmonton that lies in Alberta, the
> home of farmers and oilmen, the story is different.
> COUNTRY MUSIC! That's all you hear. Sometimes on Sunday they'll sneak
> in an hour of classical stuff.
> But to country music ears that would sound like, let's to us classical
> orientated ears, listening to Stockhausen or other modern things.
>
> The announcers on the Toronto stations purport to be eruduite in the
> matters of music.
> You hear a voice saying, "This composition was written, if memory
> serves me, in 1875." (That's what the record jacket says)
> Sometimes they get into pronouncing names a certain way.
>
> Everyone heard of Yitschak Perlman. WELL- when you come across the name
> Isaac Stern, you wouldn't called him Yitschak Stern. Both names are
> biblical.
> Isaac is the way its written in the King James bible and Yitschak is the
> Hebrew pronunciation of the name.
> So when you get, Isaac Albeniz pronounced at Yitschak Albeniz, it's
> going too far. Albeniz was Spanish.
> Imagine Sir Yitschak Newton!
> One of the funniest ones was when they played the Mozart trio for
> clarinet,viola and piano. The Kegelstat.
> So the announcer, after they played it, said, "Of course, this Kegelstat
> come from the CITY OF KEGEL." He took the sound of stat to mean stadt,
> which is German for city.
>
> A little learning is dangerous.
>
> Avrahm Galper
>